.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 231 157
Rank change year-on-year -92 -74 -39
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 321 699 942
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 1.22% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.21% 5.79% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 297 490 881
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £81,750 £73,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,164 12,079 11,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.07% 21.09% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,669 7,305 9,919
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,556 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +25 131 £77,500 +10.71% 55
North of England -45 73 £55,000 - 56
South East -57 46 £57,500 +9.52% 74
North West +4 42 £55,000 -4.35% 31
Midlands -15 30 £65,000 +36.84% 24
South West +11 25 £52,500 -16.00% 14
Yorkshire -35 23 £40,000 -20.00% 14
East Midlands -5 20 £72,500 +52.63% 13
East of England -14 11 £60,000 +20.00% 24
West Midlands +10 10 £60,000 +31.15% 10
North East -4 8 £50,000 +11.11% 12
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.18%) IIS
2 6 (1.87%) CMS
2 6 (1.87%) Confluence
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.31%) Kentico
5 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 217 (67.60%) Azure
2 90 (28.04%) AWS
3 50 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (12.15%) Serverless
5 28 (8.72%) GitHub
6 22 (6.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (5.92%) Azure Functions
8 18 (5.61%) Power Platform
9 15 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (4.67%) SaaS
10 14 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.43%) Power Automate
12 10 (3.12%) Azure AKS
12 10 (3.12%) Azure App Service
12 10 (3.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (2.80%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.80%) GCP
14 8 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.56%) Internet
2 2 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (36.14%) SQL Server
2 51 (15.89%) MongoDB
3 48 (14.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (8.41%) NoSQL
5 22 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.36%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.05%) DynamoDB
9 11 (3.43%) MySQL
10 10 (3.12%) Power BI
11 7 (2.18%) NonStop SQL
12 6 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.56%) Redis
14 4 (1.25%) Data Hub
14 4 (1.25%) SQL CLR
14 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.93%) MariaDB
16 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
16 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
16 1 (0.31%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 53 (16.51%) Git
2 14 (4.36%) JIRA
3 11 (3.43%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.18%) GitLab
5 6 (1.87%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.56%) NUnit
6 5 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.25%) MSTest
7 4 (1.25%) Postman
7 4 (1.25%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.93%) JMeter
8 3 (0.93%) Selenium
8 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.62%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.31%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (0.31%) NSubstitute
10 1 (0.31%) Sourcetree
General
1 46 (14.33%) Finance
2 41 (12.77%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.98%) Law
4 14 (4.36%) Retail
5 11 (3.43%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.80%) Legal
8 8 (2.49%) Back Office
8 8 (2.49%) Games
9 7 (2.18%) Advertising
10 6 (1.87%) Front Office
11 5 (1.56%) Banking
12 4 (1.25%) Marketing
13 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.31%) Automotive
15 1 (0.31%) Electronics
15 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 233 (72.59%) Developer
2 128 (39.88%) .NET Developer
3 73 (22.74%) Senior
4 55 (17.13%) C# Developer
4 55 (17.13%) Software Developer
5 51 (15.89%) Senior Developer
6 42 (13.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 35 (10.90%) Software Engineer
8 30 (9.35%) Lead
9 24 (7.48%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 23 (7.17%) Senior .NET Developer
11 21 (6.54%) Senior C# Developer
12 19 (5.92%) .NET Software Engineer
13 17 (5.30%) C# .NET Developer
13 17 (5.30%) Lead Developer
14 16 (4.98%) React Developer
15 15 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 14 (4.36%) C# Software Developer
17 11 (3.43%) Azure Developer
17 11 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (100.00%) .NET
2 122 (38.01%) ASP.NET
3 103 (32.09%) React
4 100 (31.15%) AngularJS
5 90 (28.04%) .NET Framework
6 73 (22.74%) HTML
7 71 (22.12%) RESTful
8 69 (21.50%) Entity Framework
9 62 (19.31%) CSS
10 61 (19.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 57 (17.76%) ASP.NET Web API
12 44 (13.71%) Blazor
13 41 (12.77%) Vue
14 37 (11.53%) Node.js
15 35 (10.90%) HTML5
16 28 (8.72%) ASP.NET Core
17 23 (7.17%) REST
18 19 (5.92%) CSS3
19 17 (5.30%) LINQ
20 14 (4.36%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.05%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.18%) Digital TV
6 7 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.18%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.87%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.87%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.25%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.93%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.62%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.56%) Windows
1 5 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (46.42%) Agile
2 135 (42.06%) Full-Stack Development
3 115 (35.83%) Microservices
4 111 (34.58%) CI/CD
5 94 (29.28%) DevOps
6 93 (28.97%) Software Engineering
7 79 (24.61%) MVC
8 53 (16.51%) Clean Code
9 50 (15.58%) Scrum
10 49 (15.26%) Containerisation
11 47 (14.64%) TDD
12 46 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (10.28%) Mentoring
15 32 (9.97%) SDLC
16 31 (9.66%) BDD
17 29 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
18 28 (8.72%) Kanban
19 26 (8.10%) Unit Testing
20 24 (7.48%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 287 (89.41%) C#
2 129 (40.19%) SQL
3 128 (39.88%) JavaScript
4 73 (22.74%) TypeScript
5 29 (9.03%) Python
6 13 (4.05%) Rust
7 9 (2.80%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.87%) Go
8 6 (1.87%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.56%) Java
10 4 (1.25%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.93%) Erlang
12 2 (0.62%) Bicep
12 2 (0.62%) XAML
13 1 (0.31%) Bash
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (11.84%) Degree
2 13 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.18%) AWS Certification
3 7 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (2.18%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.18%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.61%) QA
2 9 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.18%) WCAG
4 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (21.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.35%) Terraform
3 2 (0.62%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 108 (33.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.18%) Facebook
2 7 (2.18%) YouTube
3 4 (1.25%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.25%) VMware
4 3 (0.93%) Databricks
5 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.62%) Google
5 2 (0.62%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle
6 1 (0.31%) IBM
6 1 (0.31%) IONA
6 1 (0.31%) New Relic
6 1 (0.31%) Okta
6 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow